uart Mill. Later we learned that it was
from the pen of his noble wife, to whom be all honor for thus coming
to the aid of a struggling cause. I can pay no tribute to her memory
so beautiful as the following extract from a letter recently received
from her husband:

"'It gives me the greatest pleasure to know that the service
rendered by my dear wife to the cause which was nearer her heart
than any other, by her essay in the _Westminster Review_, has had
so much effect and is so justly appreciated in the United States.
Were it possible in a memoir to have the formation and growth of
a mind like hers portrayed, to do so would be as valuable a
benefit to mankind as was ever conferred by a biography. But such
a psychological history is seldom possible, and in her case the
materials for it do not exist. All that could be furnished is her
birth-place, parentage, and a few dates, and it seems to me that
her memory is more honored by the absence of any attempt at a
biographical notice than by the presence of a most meagre one.
What she was, I have attempted, though most inadequately, to
delineate in the remarks prefaced to her essay, as reprinted with
my "Dissertations and Discussions."'

"'I am very glad to hear of the step in advance made by the Rhode
Island Legislature in constituting a Board of Women for some
important administrative purposes. Your intended proposal, that
women be impaneled on every jury where women are to be tried,
seems to me very good, and calculated to place the injustice to
which women are at present subjected, by the entire legal system,
in a very striking light.

"'I am, dear madam, yours sincerely,
"'MRS. PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS. J. S. MILL.'

"Immediately after the reports were published, they were sent to
various persons in Europe, and before the second Convention was held,
letters of cheer were received from Harriet Martineau, Marion Reid,
and others.

"Thus encouraged, we felt new zeal to go on with a work which had
challenged the understanding and constrained the hearts of the best
and soundest thinkers in the nation; had given an impulse to the women
of England and of Sweden--for Frederika Bremer had quoted from our
writings and reported our proceedings; our words had been like an
angel's visit to the prisoners of State in France